Biologists report that the white bellbird, which lives in the mountains of the Amazon, has shattered the record for the world’s loudest bird. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/listen-to-the-worlds-loudest-bird…
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Drought reveals a lost Spanish Stonehenge
Thanks to 2019’s record drought in Europe, a 7,000-year-old circle of 150 upright stones is back on dry land in western Spain, after 50 years underwater. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/drought-reveals-spanish-stonehenge-dolmen-guadalperal…
Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End
Strudelkugel shares an op-ed: What was We thinking? That’s the only question worth asking now about the clowncar start-up known as The We Company, the money-burning, co-working behemoth whose best-known brand is WeWork. What’s a WeWork? What WeWork works on is work. The We Company takes out long-term leases on in-demand office buildings in more than 100 cities across the globe…
People may have smoked marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago in western China
Cannabis may have been altering minds at an ancient high-altitude cemetery, researchers say Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/evidence-marijuana-smoking-rituals-ancient-western-china4…
Bronze Age Siberian ‘Birdman’ Wore a Collar of Beaks and Skulls
This unusual garment may have been used for protection or rituals. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65623-siberia-birdman-shaman.html